Новости за 21.06.2018

Thread re-opened after a day in the archives in London, my research came across a book on North Waziristan 1946-1947, which has first-hand reporting on Political Agents as they were called and a sad tale follows in a moment. The book is 'Frontier Legion: With the Khassadars of North Waziristan'...

What was the US role post-VE Day? An article on a different topic has this, added due to value: ---Quote--- The United States can do better. Indeed, it has done better. One example is the program to build Greece’s military just after World War II. It was a fragile situation reminiscent of...

A couple of months stale but too good to gloss over. ---Quote--- China's governing Communist Party has proposed removing a clause in the constitution which limits presidencies to two five-year terms - which means President Xi Jinping could remain as leader after the end of his second term in...

---Quote--- If you're looking to post something about John Oliver on Chinese social media this week, chances are you can't. The British television host been censored on China's biggest social media site, just days after he criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping on his popular US show Last Week...

US intelligence report: China will have the world's most powerful naval gun ready for war by 2025 ---Quote--- The warship-mounted electromagnetic railgun is expected to enter China's arsenal by 2025, according to sources with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report. Railguns have long...

Captured via Twitter this 28 page report, mainly from their Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU) and sub-titled: ---Quote--- This report, covering active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013, examines specific behaviors that may precede an attack and that might be useful in...

How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is - AND - is Not SWJED Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:17pm

As an institution, the U.S. Army has yet to see Mission Command as what it really is - a culture of professionalism. All too often, we have sought tangible metrics at the expense of holistic understanding.

Via the UK blog Defnce in Depth Professor Anthony King, now @ Warwick University, has a short article which starts with: ---Quote--- Military command is currently a focus of deep public scrutiny; it might even be said to be in crisis. Following the disappointments and difficulties of the...

A summary of a recent AQAP statement via BBC Monitoring (no link is provided to the original source): ---Quote--- Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP) has released a lengthy interview with its leading figure Khalid Batarfi, commenting on various aspects of the conflict in Yemen and the jihadist group's...

A critical overview by a veteran Reuters journalist, which seeks to answer: ---Quote--- an important question: At a time when U.S. military engagement in Africa is growing rapidly, who exactly is doing the mythmaking and the lying? The U.S. military obscures the nature of its actions in...

Rethinking Grand Strategy SWJED Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:30am

Grand strategy may seem an irrelevant idea but it’s not. As Colin Gray declares “all strategy is grand strategy.” Without a grand strategy that explains the ends, works the means and sets out the ways, lower-level strategies will be uncoordinated, work at odds with each other and be unlikely to succeed. It should be thought of as a practical problem-solving methodology you can apply to particular real-world problems. This article... Читать дальше...